We should adopt his principles and govern men as they are and not as what we’d like them to be.
ANATOLE FRANCESuffering — how divine it is, how misunderstood! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.
More Anatole France Quotes
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Science neither cares to please nor to displease. She is inhuman. It is not science but poetry that charms and consoles. And that is why poetry is more necessary than science.
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Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
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As to the kind of truth one finds in books, it is a truth that enables us sometimes to discern what things are not, without ever enabling us to discover what they are.
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The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
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If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
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All changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy
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To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
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If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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